Celebrations
Best of Boston Awards
Six establishments on the Vineyard won Best of Boston awards announced in the July 31 issue of Boston magazine.
Winners from the Vineyard were:
Best Bar: Brick Cellar at Atria
Best Brunch: Water Street at the Harbor View Hotel & Resort
Best Inn: Dockside Inn
Best Resort: Winnetu Oceanside Resort
Best Restaurant—General Excellence: State Road
Best New Restaurant: Martha’s Vineyard Chowder Company
Andrew McHugh of Edgartown, Ana Carvalho of Oak Bluffs and Julie Pringle of Vineyard Haven have been named to the dean’s list at Tufts University for the spring 2012 semester.
The buzz in the basement of the Old Whaling Church on Friday afternoon came from the members of the Martha’s Vineyard Preservation Trust, gathered for their annual meeting and luncheon. But the main topic of conversation was unbeknownst to a key member of the group. In honor of Christopher Scott’s 20th year as executive director, the Edgartown selectmen and the Edgartown historic district commission presented Mr. Scott with the Edgartown historic district preservation award.
The August issue of Martha’s Vineyard Magazine runs the gamut of summer activities, from laid-back afternoons on the beach to the high-energy high jinks of Built on Stilts, the Island’s communal celebration of dance.
Annie and Jake Sylvia of Edgartown announce the birth of a son, Benjamin King Sylvia, born on August 4 at Falmouth Hospital. Benjamin weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces at birth.
This coming Sunday, August 12 at 10 a.m., the Rev. Raphael G. Warnock will be the guest preacher at the Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs. Rev. Warnock travels here from Atlanta, Ga., where he is the senior pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church. It was there, from the pulpit of its Heritage Sanctuary, that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached his ministry of nonviolence. Now, from that same pulpit, senior pastor Warnock continues Ebenezer’s legacy as a church at the forefront of the fight for social justice.